OLB, as much as I usually disagree with your political posts, I think you're spot-on.

Apparently nobody in the DNC remembers the 1990s, when people openly and vociferously hated her with an unholy passion despite the fact that she held no real power at the time. Hell, living in Louisiana I heard more anti-Hillary jokes/jibes than anti-Bill comments. And that was during a time when they were trying like hell to impeach him for anything they could find to stick on him! Before they hated "Obama-care", they hated "Hillary-care", and it was not much more than an idea, back then. I know of few people on this planet who inspire such loathing from Joe Blow, especially in the South and Midwest.

I've been arguing against Hillary supporters, on this basis, for most of those intervening decades-- in 2003 I had a lesbian friend (now former friend, obviously) literally yell at me that I was a misogynist because I didn't support Hillary as a candidate!

As has already been said, the Bernie supporters tried to tell everyone this, but we were called stupid hippies, free-riders, you name it... anything other than the college kids of ~20 years ago who grew up listening to the anti-Hillary rhetoric of our parents' generation (parents who are now in the "we have nothing else to do with our lives but go vote for things to go back to the way they were in the Good Old Days of our youth" prime-voting-age block), and we know that nothing has changed.

Honestly, with the exception of Bill and Barack, I have thought at every election since I was old enough to know what democracy was, "Is this the best the Democrats can do?!?"

"Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?" - E. O. Wilson

(09-11-2016 05:19 AM)epronovost Wrote: The good thingwith presidet Trump is that no matter how bad he is, he will still be better than many of us think he would be. In that regard, he is the anti-Obama.

Canada is about to become a much nicer country. It will be flooded with educated, productive and socially considerate Americans who see Trump for what he is. Immigrants who will be grateful to their new host country.